Reproduction
The number of chromosomes in a healthy, adult cell.
What is 46?
What is sexual?
This term describes the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another.
What is parasitism?
What is formed after the replication of a zygote?
What is an embryo?
The term for a cell created through the process of binary fission.
What is a daughter cell?
When Mr. Bester is scared, he curls into a ball and weeps on the floor, to make predators feel bad for him and avoid eating him. This is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is a behavioural adaptation?
What is the term for the practice of protecting species in their natural habitat?
What is conservation?
What do we call organisms that eat other organisms for energy?
What are consumers?
List two advantages, and two disadvantages of sexual reproduction.
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The term for the male reproductive part of a flower.
Mr. Cheema has a shiny head so that he can be found by search planes if he was ever lost in the woods. What type of adaptation is this?
What is a structural/physical adaptation?
In a predator-prey relationship, when the prey population decreases, what population change would you expect in the predator?
What is a decrease?
This term describes organisms that can live in a variety of environments and eat a wide range of foods.
What is generalist?
These cells can be released by millions at a time from a mushroom or fungus, and can create identical offspring.
What are spores?
The part of a flower that receives pollen for fertilization.
What is the Stigma?
What is it called when organisms develop traits that help them survive in their environment?
What is adaptation?
This term describes a species that has been entirely wiped out from an area, but still exists in other parts of the world.
What is Extirpation?
This term describes a species that is not native to an area, and quickly populates due to a lack of natural predators.
What is Invasive Species?
In this form of asexual reproduction, a small growth on an organism eventually falls off and becomes a separate, identical organism.
What is budding?
This is the term that describes when a plant is fertilized by its own pollen.
What is self-pollination?
Provide an example of variation within a species, and between 2 species.
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This relationship between two different species where both benefit is known as what?
What is mutualism?
This term refers to a species that has a narrow range of niches in its ecosystem.
What is a specialist?